Load Balancing Voice Applications with Piranha

In this paper, we investigate the load balancing problem among a cluster of mobile and fixed devices in a voice enabled interface. We consider a design approach. The voice interface has to support up to a hundred simultaneous users. The load balancing criteria we consider are defined, on the one hand in terms of network, CPU and memory resources, and on the other hand in terms of the boundary between fixed and mobile devices. The solution we propose is based on a derivate of the Linux Virtual Server: the Piranha system. Piranha enhances the Linux Virtual Server with several features, in particular with monitoring aspects and fault tolerance. We describe precisely the proposed architecture of the application. We present a new scheduling technique which has been designed to take into account dynamically resource loads Keywords. Load balancing, scheduling techniques, Piranha cluster, voice applications, distributed algorithms.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: PDPTA
• Authors: Mustapha Hadim, Pierre Manneback, Michel Bagein, Pierre Maon
• Keywords: Linux Virtual Server, Load Balancing Criteria, Load Balancing Problem, PDPTA 2003, PDPTA 2007